Meanings
verbuncassock (third-person singular simple present uncassocks, present participle uncassocking, simple past and past participle uncassocked)
present singular third person uncassocks · participle present uncassocking · participle past uncassocked · past uncassocked
- transitiveTo remove the cassock from.
After having had an excellent breakfast, he is hastening home to uncassock himself, when he will, by a country walk, quicken his appetite for an excellent dinner, to which Michael Angelo's father has invited him, […]
1811, William Combe, The Devil Upon Two Sticks in England, page 32
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uncassock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncassock
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